Current Connection:

Look over the CC handout focusing on requirements for your essay, rubric, and student examples of essay. Your first 1 page essay will be due on your blog on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Please make sure to EDIT before posting!

Vocab: Define the student chosen vocab words from JFK's Speech

Collaboratively, you all chose words that you felt were confusing, or you wanted to know the meaning of. We cut that list down into 10 collective 11th grade vocab words for this speech. If some of the words you chose are not in the list- look them up any way! Find out what they mean! It will ONLY help you to understand the speech better.

• Complete a 4-square for each word containing: definition, part of speech, picture, and original sentence
  • forebear
  • asunder
  • tempered
  • belaboring
  • inaugural
  • subversion
  • beachhead
  • sovereign
  • invective
  • civility

Tone:

• Handout list of tone words
• Tone activity using exerpt from Speak

Set the Scene:

• Background info. What's going on around the time of JFK's speech?

Read:

Teacher Model: Read/Analyze page 47-48, first five paragraphs

• Tone Thesis Statement
• Complete handout
• Discuss main idea